[Illustration: Edmund Christopherson]
Ed Christopherson was a professional author and magazine writer whose
articles about Montana, the Northwest, and other subjects appear in The
Saturday Evening Post, Holiday, This Week Magazine, Mademoiselle,
Reader's Digest, The New York Times, Congressional Record, etc.
Born in Ohio, he began his writing career in New York. His introduction
to the Mountain Northwest came through a season as a Forest Service
Smokejumper. After several years in New York, he picked exciting and
scenic Western Montana as the center of his regional writing activities.
Christopherson went to West Yellowstone (they called it "Shookville")
the day after the quake. He got first hand accounts from survivors
there, and in Ennis, flew and walked over the slide and elsewhere in the
quake area, and since has spent months researching and correlating what
turned out to be "The Night The Mountain Fell."